Testing from Inside the Maze

Science owes its success to its self-correcting methodology and the need for irrefutable experimental evidence. So if you're trying to prove that the universe is information, how do you do it without being able to step outside of it? As theoretical physicist Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara explains, it's easy for us to take a physical object and glean the informational representation of it, but it's much more difficult to do the opposite.

Original Program Date: June 4, 2011

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[wernertrptube]

What happens when the next step to some physical measurement instruments  will cost approcs. 10 power 80 Dollars ?
You need the yearly budget of  10 power 60 earths.
So you have to make a call to the multiverse earths as a big spender.

[bobaldo]

Words and numbers do not touch reality at any point.